Re: [xml] Re: SAX and userData

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:21:57AM -0400, David F. Newman wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, David F. Newman wrote:
> The page that documents xmlSAXParseFileWithData() describes:
> "User data (void *) is stored within the parser context, so it is
> available nearly everywhere in libxml."
>
> Maybe it should be updated to include that the user data is
> stored in the parser context's _private member and not in userData.

  right this makes sense, updated as:

 * User data (void *) is stored within the parser context in the
 * context's _private member, so it is available nearly everywhere in libxml

> Also the documentation for the callbacks state:
> ctx : the user data (XML parser context)
>
> As a beginner to libxml this seemed contradictory.  Which was it?
> The user data or the parser context?  Now I know that it could
> be either.  Wouldn't it be better to always pass the parser context
> and change the prototype to be xmlParserCtxtPtr ctx for the sake
> of type safety?

  Hum, at that point, I prefer not changing it. Some of those parts are
"legacy" and I prefer not take any risk with those.

Daniel

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